Today I find myself again discussing the 2015 Germanwings crash. The crash was absolutely pivotal to subsequent FAA policy. I came to this with one pressing question: How was Lubitz, the 27-year-old co-pilot that crashed the plane and murdered 149 others, ever permitted to fly that day? He had 41 doctors in 5 years, 7 in the month prior to his crash. And, his physicians had lots of concerns.
Here is what I have concluded: Lubitz was terrified he was going blind and deaf. But he was also afraid of losing his job. So he spent a lot of time seeing doctors while also hiding his problems. If we are to believe the investigations that followed, his colleagues did not know how ill he was. His girlfriend was also in the dark. And, as for his psychiatrist – well, they wrote the following:
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